Job Scheduling Under the Portable Batch System
IPPS '95 Proceedings of the Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
CCS Resource Management in Networked HPC Systems
HCW '98 Proceedings of the Seventh Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
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A framework for cluster management is proposed that enables a cluster to be more efficiently utilized within a research environment. It does so by removing cluster management to a management node, leaving the compute nodes as essentially bare machinery. Users may schedule access to one or more of the compute nodes via the management node. At the scheduled time, a previously-saved image of their research environment is loaded, and the session begun. At the end of the session the user may save a new image of the environment on the management node, to be reloaded at another time. Thus the user may work with a customized environment, which may even be a fledgling operating system, without fear of interference to other researchers. This enables the capital investment of a systems research cluster to be amortized over a greater number of researchers.